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The phrase "a switched off" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where you want to describe something that has been turned off, but it should be phrased differently.
Example: "The device is switched off and needs to be turned back on."
Alternatives: "a turned-off" or "a powered-down".
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Numeric displayed values of intravascular pressures were recorded every 10 s for 1 minute during ongoing ventilation by PCV and HFOV with a switched off end-expiratory filter function of the monitoring system (S/5 Monitoring; Datex-Ohmeda).
Of 558 possible interviewees, 82 did not answer the call, 58 telephone numbers were unobtainable, for example, due to a switched off mobile phone ('the dialled number cannot be reached') and for 48 people, the telephone number was not in use during data collection.
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He ran to a room, switched off the lights and crawled under the bed.
A colleague switched off the system.
"After this happened, it was like a light switched off in my personality," Swift said. .
On the floor in the middle of our circle, way beyond anyone's reach, rests a flashlight, switched off.
Mass on a Sunday, fish on a Friday, television switched off during Holy Week.
After he had stood for about a minute, he switched off the lights, and started firing.
"We worked our way into a good lead, then we probably switched off a little bit.
High levels of miR-146a also switched off a gene that encodes for a protein that, in turn, switches off a protein called NOTCH that is linked to skin cancer.
The Nuggets switched off a pick, then Sprewell scored on a drive.
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